Advertising device



- ,P. A. STEPHENS. ADVERTISING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4. 19 19.

1 ,335 ,262. Patented Mar. 30, 1920.

PHILIP A. STEPHENS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 30, 1920.

Application filed June 4, 1919. Serial No. 301,680.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP A. STEPHENS, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented anew and useful Advertising Device, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in advertising devices andconsists in the novel construction and arrangement of the partshereinafter described.

An object of the invention is to provide an advertising deiviceicomprising a Web whereon an advertising sign may be displayed, incombination with means for reciprocating the web into and out of thecase.

Other features of the invention will be apparent without specificmention from the following detailed description thereof, taken inconnection with accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a crosssection through the case that incloses the operating parts of thedevice, showing the web partially projected from the case, and

Fig. 2 is a detailed view of the fragment of the web.

The invention as illustrated in a drawing comprises a box-like case 1.Within the case and journaled in a vertical position is a air of rollers2. The rollers have attac ed thereto intermeshing gear wheels 3.

A web 4. has its ends secured to the rollers 2, and is preferably madeof some form of translucent material, and it is adapted to be wound uponthe rollers in opposite directions. The web extends outwardly throughspaced vertical slots 5 in one wall of the case. A binding 6, isattached to the web at the top and bottom edges thereof. This binding ismade of fine gage sheet metal, so that it may be wound upon the rollers.The binding serves to hold the web in extended position, when it isprojected from the case. Any suitable advertising legend may be placedupon the, web A, in such a way that it maybe read when the web is fullyprojected from the case.

As the web is projected in double folds from the case for illuminatedadvertising, electric lights may be interposed between the spaced partsof the folded web.

The web is alternately projected and contracted from and into the caseby winding it upon and unwinding it from the rollers upon which the webis'wound, Any suitable means for imparting to the rollers areciprocating rotary motion may be employed. As illustrated, theoperating mechanism comprises a motor M, having a drive shaft 7 which isequipped with a worm gear 8 meshing with one of the gear wheels 3.

The motor may be equipped with a reverse switch R. S. whereby the shaftis driven first in one direction and then in the other, after apredetermined number of rotations, in each direction.

I am aware the invention may be modified in detail without departingfrom the scope of the invention. What I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is:

1. An advertising device, comprising a case, a pair of rollers mountedin said case, a web having the opposite ends thereof secured to saidrollers, and adapted to be wound upon and unwound from said rollers, andmeans for operating said rollers, whereby said web is alternatelyprojected and drawn within said case.

2. In an advertising device the combination with a case havingspaced'slots in one wall thereof, of a pair of rollers, journaled forrotation within said case, a web havin opposite ends thereof attached tosai rollers, flexible metallic strips attached to the upper and loweredges of said web, Said web being arranged to be wound on the rollers inopposite directions, and means for alternately winding and unwinding theweb whereby the same is projected from an contracted within said case.

3. An advertising device, comprising a case having spaced slots in onewall thereof, a pair of rollers within the case, a web of flexiblematerial, having the oppositeends thereof adjusted to wind in oppositedirections on said rollers, a pair of gears attached to said rollers,respectively, said. gears intermeshing, and means for operating saidgears in an alternating, rotary di rection, whereby said web isalternately wound upon and from said rollers, and thereby projected fromand contracted with in said case.

PHILIP A. STEPHENS.

